Category Archives: Alberta

Additional relief for Alberta’s tourism industry
The Alberta government is allowing accommodation providers to keep the tourism levy amounts they collect for an additional three months.To ensure money stays in the pockets of Alberta's job creators, ...
May 26, 2021

Alberta extends small business grant application intake
Application intake for the spring 2021 payment from Alberta's small business grant has been extended to June 30.In April, Alberta's government reopened the Small and Medium Enterprise Relaunch Grant p...
May 26, 2021

Alberta lays out three-stage plan to ease public health restrictions
Premier Jason Kenney says a "fully open" Alberta summer is just around the corner.That statement came as the Premier laid out the province's staged path forward plan to easing public health restrictio...
May 26, 2021

Hinton RCMP searching for alleged campsite shooter at Wildhay Provincial Recreation area
The Hinton RCMP are searching for a suspect in a firearm incident that took place near the WildHay River Provincial Recreation area over the long weekend.Corporal Deanna Fontaine with the Alberta RCMP...
May 26, 2021

Premier Kenney to detail province's re-opening strategy Wednesday
Premier Jason Kenney and other provincial officials are to provide an update on COVID-19 and the province's strategy for "safely easing restrictions" during a press conference scheduled for Wednesday ...
May 25, 2021

Act to protect Alberta's right to limit energy exports tabled in Legislature
The Alberta Government has tabled Bill 72, the Preserving Canada's Economic Prosperity Act, at the Legislature with the intent of strengthening the government's ability to limit energy exports to othe...
May 25, 2021

Province asks universities to report on links with Beijing and Communist Party
Alberta's advanced education minister has sent a letter to four of the province's universities asking them to pause their pursuit of new or renewed partnerships with organizations linked with China or...
May 25, 2021

Man shot and killed by police near Red Deer Regional Hospital
A man was shot and killed by police Monday night during an incident near Red Deer Regional Hospital.RCMP officers were responding at 9 p.m. to multiple driving complaints when they stopped a vehicle i...
May 25, 2021

Outgoing mayors in Calgary, Edmonton reflect on wide-open races to replace them
CALGARY - Alberta's two big cities will get new mayors this fall and voters will choose whether to build on the progressive legacies of Calgary's Naheed Nenshi and Edmonton's Don Iveson or swing towar...
May 24, 2021

'Sad and disappointed': COVID-19 vaccination clinics at Alberta-US border cancelled
A feel-good story in which a Montana First Nation was holding COVID-19 vaccination clinics at the Canada-United States border in southwestern Alberta has come to an end. The Blackfeet Tribe, 150 kilom...
May 24, 2021